“When I was younger and first starting out, my mom said I could stop whenever I wanted and that would be fine, she wouldn’t care,” Dakota told Arizona Central.

She continued to say, “She would leave it up to me. So then I had the power in the situation to choose to continue. So I’ve never felt out of control of what I was doing. I always felt like it was in my own power to continue or not continue, and that freedom has allowed me to still enjoy it. I truly never have had a desire to stop acting thus far.”